Volk­swa­gen has sold over 5.22 mil­lion pas­sen­ger vehi­cles world­wide in the first 11 months of 2012, with an 11.5% increase in Novem­ber over Novem­ber 2011. The automak­er kept deliv­er­ies on the over­all Euro­pean mar­ket sta­ble despite the dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion on mar­kets in South­ern Europe and hand­ed over 1.58 mil­lion units in the peri­od to Novem­ber, on par with the pri­or-year peri­od.